age ~76
from Oceanside, CA
Following on from the hit BBC series Victorian Farm, this book accompanies a new 12-part BBC series. This time, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, and Peter Ginn take a leap forward in time to immerse themselves in an Edwardian community in the West Country. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centurie...
Author
Ruth Goodman
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Pavilion
ISBN #
1862058857
EAN Code
9781862058859
ISBN #
8
Providing hints, tips, recipes, andhistorical background, thisbook explainshow many traditional remedies are still in use and how to make them at homeHere is the story of consumer medicine—howdrugstore healthcare emerged in just 50 years and howconsumers still rely on hundreds of formulations and pr...
Author
Jane Eastoe
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
Pavilion
ISBN #
1862058903
EAN Code
9781862058903
ISBN #
7
No electricity, no gas, no flushing toilet . . . and no tractor! Could you survive a year on a Victorian farm? In this fascinating time-traveling experiment a team of historians spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. Accompanying the televisionseries, this book follows the team as they try to ru...
Author
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Pavilion
ISBN #
1862058210
EAN Code
9781862058217
ISBN #
6
The real Wolf Hall - a time traveller's guide to daily life in Tudor England The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most notably in the court of Henry VIII - what was life really like for a commoner like you...
Author
Ruth Goodman
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Publisher
Viking
ISBN #
0241215498
EAN Code
9780241215494
ISBN #
4
During World War Two Britain had to look to the land to provide the produce it had previously shipped in from abroad, meaning huge changes on both the agricultural and domestic scenes. Accompanying an 8-part BBC series and written by the three presenters who spend a year living on a reconstructed fa...
Author
Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Alexander Langlands
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
Mitchell Beazley
ISBN #
1845337085
EAN Code
9781845337087
ISBN #
9
Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn have become familiar faces on BBC2 after their hugely popular and immersive time-travelling experiments, Victorian, Edwardian, and Wartime Farm. But for their fourth series, and our accompanying book, they have joined forces with Tom Pinfold to take on their biggest chall...
Author
Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Tom Pinfold
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
BBC Books
ISBN #
1849906920
EAN Code
9781849906920
ISBN #
5
No electricity, no gas, no flushing toilet—and no tractor! Could you survive a year on a Victorian farm? In this fascinating time-traveling experiment Lion Television, with the BBC, follow a team of historians who will spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. Accompanying the series, this book fol...
Author
Ruth Goodman
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Pavilion
ISBN #
1862058717
EAN Code
9781862058712
ISBN #
3
A “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Reader...
Author
Ruth Goodman
Binding
Paperback
Pages
480
Publisher
Liveright
ISBN #
163149113X
EAN Code
9781631491139
ISBN #
2